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Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering –focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California . The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine.
David Warthen. David Warthen (born December 10, 1957) was one of the founders of Ask Jeeves, now called Ask.com, [1] an internet search engine. Warthen has served as Chief Technology Officer or Vice President of Engineering for a variety of companies, [2] [3] many of them start-ups, [4] [5] [6] over his career.
Ask Jeeves, a natural language web search engine, that aims to rank links by popularity, is released. It would later become Ask.com. September 15: New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English)
Excite continued to operate until the Excite Network was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) in March 2004. Ask Jeeves promised to rejuvenate iWon and Excite, but was not able to. Ask Jeeves management became distracted, according to the East Bay Business Times, first by a search feature arms race with Google and Yahoo!, and then by its merger ...
For the Ask.com UK operation, Safka re-introduced the Jeeves character – the brand was initially called "Ask Jeeves", although the company had chosen to cease using the beloved butler in 2007. The British market enthusiastically greeted Jeeves' return, and Ask.com received significant press attention. Previous work
Steven Berkowitz (born September 4, 1958) is the former CEO of Lumosity and former CEO of Move, Inc. After serving on the board of directors of Move, Inc. for nearly a year, Steve was selected by the board to succeed Michael Long to serve as the company's CEO. After completing the acquisition of Move by Newscorp, his tenure ended on January 5 ...
Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse.Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster.
The Ask Partner Network, LLC, formerly a division of Ask Jeeves, became a part of Mindspark. On May 20, 2010, Mindspark bought a majority stake in diet tracking site DailyBurn , which was responsible for Mindspark's fitness products.